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Matthew Paul Thomas
23 April 2010

Refining the battery status menu

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

As part of the notification area transition, we’re adapting the Gnome Power Manager item to be a system status menu. We’re interested in your feedback on the design and any improvements we can make. ...

Canonical
23 April 2010

Magical Mystery Cafe

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

There will be those of you reading this who will say “only in Japan” and ordinarily I would shy away from that sort of thing but in this case I think you’re right. Cabel Sasser is co-founder of a software company I’ve long admired and found a very interesting place to get a drink while ...

Canonical
23 April 2010

New strategic plan!

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Came across this on the delightful Swissmiss. We are always in the process of reviewing our development processes a both design and technical to keep them Lean and agile and the chap quoted here is Herb Kelleher of Southwest airlines fame. Southwest are renowned for the way that the run their company. Highly responsive to ...

Canonical
23 April 2010

Curious displays

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Video on Vimeo by Julia Yu Tsao showing an interesting, and very futuristic, concept to display information in a physical environment. ...

Canonical
22 April 2010

Future of eBooks?

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Video from YouTube of the Element iPad application. ...

Canonical
22 April 2010

Ubuntu Server and Apache Tomcat – refreshed and supported together with MuleSoft

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Earlier this year, MuleSoft approached us with the desire to partner and offer to work with Canonical to improve our default java container, Tomcat, for Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server. The idea was to make Tomcat on Ubuntu 10.04 LTS easier to download, install, and configure on Ubuntu than JBOSS is on RHEL. The Ubuntu Server ...

Canonical
22 April 2010

It’s good to talk

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Only a few posts in and our design blog is teeming with lively debate! Don’t forget that you can comment on these posts but if you feel an idea warrants a more open or broad conversation bring them over to the Ayatana mailing list. You can get involved in Ayatana by heading over to its ...

Canonical
22 April 2010

CHI paper: What would other programmers do: suggesting solutions to error messages

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Abstract Interpreting compiler errors and exception messages is challenging for novice programmers. Presenting examples of how other programmers have corrected similar errors may help novices understand and correct such errors. This paper introduces HelpMeOut, a social recommender system that aids the debugging of error messages by sugges ...

Matthew Paul Thomas
21 April 2010

Farewell to the notification area

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

Ubuntu is phasing out the traditional Gnome notification area, because of its ineffectiveness at notifying people of things, and its inconsistent behavior. Many programs that previously used the notification area should use other notification mechanisms instead. Some notification area items will be replaced by various system status menus ...

Canonical
21 April 2010

Ubuntu wallpapers

Ubuntu Ubuntu tech blog

In case anyone is missing their favourite wallpapers from Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) in 10.4 (Lucid Lynx) there is good news!The ubuntu-wallpapers-extra package is installable from the universe repository. In order to install it from the Soft ...

Canonical
21 April 2010

Canonical and Dell deliver Ubuntu Moblin Remix Developer Edition

Desktop Ubuntu tech blog

Canonical, Dell and Intel Team up to deliver Moblin Ubuntu Remix Developer Edition on Inspiron Mini 10v Canonical and Dell have collaborated to bring the latest developer edition of the Moblin™ v2 user experience to the developer market. Called ‘Ubuntu Moblin Remix Developer Edition’ and optimized for the Intel® Atom™ processor-based Dell ...

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